All one has to do is see what happened in places like Zurich with Needle Park.
“The history is they make everything worse.” Oh I don’t know. I want their to be a judicial system and a prison system. I don’t want criminals to freely roam the streets and no what ever they want to do to the citizenry. Our country already went through that and it isn’t pretty.
But generally I agree with you. I just don’t think it makes any sense to add additional methods of getting ‘high’ to the legal list. It is already way over done
” I just don’t think it makes any sense to add additional methods of getting ‘high’ to the legal list.”
We want a legal system we can respect, which means it must strive for justice and logical consistency. It must pass the reasonable man test.
In the eyes of many, perhaps most, marijuana prohibition does not meet the criterion of logical consistency.
Alcohol is stronger and far more dangerous. It can kill you quickly and suddenly, as happens to a couple of frat pledges every year (Well, maybe not *every* year, but certainly every now and then.). It is strongly addictive, much more so than pot, and that can be fatal over a period of years or decades.
There are counter-arguments. Good ones, maybe even convincing ones, but many remain convinced by the “alcohol is stronger” argument.